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Crossfire Exhibition

Members from Kaderia Bahini (guerilla independence militia) bayonet a collaborator (razakar) of the Pak army amid public, in Paltan, Dhaka, few days after the Liberation of Bangladesh. December 1971. Photo: Rashid Talukder/Drik/Majority World

Crossfire Exhibition

20 NovPhotographer Shahidul Alam chronicles extrajudicial killings in Bangladesh in his exhibition Crossfire, which will be showcased at the Brisbane Powerhouse from Wednesday 7 November to Monday 3 December. The exhibition was initially banned Bangladesh government but the ruling was overtuned on appeal by the Bangladesh High Court. More than a thousand victims have reportedly been ‘cross-fired’ or executed by police without trial in Bangladesh.